11 months!

Happy Birthday Kenna girl!  11 months already... Wow, how time flies!  First things first, let's try to get a good one with Mr. Monkey this month...

Hmmm, maybe not

Don't try to trick me with funny jokes, I will not smile...

Or props, I'll just look at them and not the camera

Hmm, books will keep me seated, but I still won't look at you

Standing almost worked.

A picture before her nighttime feed definitely did not work

And right after her nighttime feed just caught her mid-cough

You are getting closer..

This one is the best I"ve got.. Not bad, actually

But starting with her big "1" next month, we might have to move on to pictures in her chair every month!  She seems to like this.

So, what's my 11 month old up to? 

Just about everything!  She is SUCH a little ham these days and makes us laugh non-stop.

Her first official word is definitely "hi".  She still says it all the time, my favorite is when she wakes up from nap or bedtime and starts saying hi, hi, hi over again until I come to get her.  

She's also repeating much of what we say and has mama, dada, up, out and "bah" for Bugsey down pretty good.  

She's crawling all over the place and has finally learned to sit from a crawl.  She's started pulling up on everything to a stand and shuffling along the furniture.  When she's ready to sit back down from a stand she let's go and flops down on her butt rather dramatically - hey, its a big load coming down.  

She is in her big girl carseat, which daddy installed yesterday for her.  She still fit in her infant seat, but it was getting too tough to carry her around in it.  She would have been in it earlier, but we were waiting for spring.  We've finally given up on spring ever coming and decided to put her in it.

She's eating like a champ (shocker, I know).  Her favorite food is strawberries and I've learned if I give them to her with another food, she will pick out all the strawberries before she eats anything else.

  She is starting to get into just about everything, but has learned that no means no.  If I tell her no sternly enough, she will flinch and actually listen to me.  The next time she goes near something I've told her no to, she'll keep repeating no no no no as she crawls near it. 

Her latest favorite (and daddy's too) is "shaking her piggies".  I'll have to post a video, because this one is REALLY cute! 

Happy birthday Makenna!  We love you!!